Media release 16.2.2017 Ernest Truely has been chosen to direct ANTI Festival’s community arts project for asylum seekers. The open call for artists closed on 15th January. Truely will work in Kuopio for the first time between 21st and 23rd February 2017.   Ernest Truely is an artist and educator from the United States, based in […]

Newsletter 2.2.2017 Future DiverCities was celebrated in Marseille The Launch of the Future DiverCities project took place in Marseille, France between 29th and 30th January. Kuopio and ANTI Festival was represented by the artistic director Johanna Tuukkanen and festival manager Elisa Itkonen and Kirsi Soininen, the marketing director of the City of Kuopio. In the […]

Media release 26.1.2017 The 16th edition of ANTI Festival will take place between 18th and 24th September 2017. The festival will partner with a number of local partners to produce a programme of projects that respond to the theme of water. We invited proposals from artists working in any medium. We also invited proposals of […]

Media release 19.1.2017 The visionary Creative Europe project Future DiverCities will be launched in Marseille, France during the Chroniques Festival in January 2017!   As a key partner of the initiative of 10 cultural partners in Europe and Canada, ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival invites collaborators, supporters and audiences to join us in the Launch Event on […]

Newsletter 20.12.2017 ANTI Festival is sending a big warm thank you for the year 2016 to our partners, artists, team members, voluntary assistants and performers, and audience!   The past year has been eventful in Kuopio. ANTI organised six events and action weeks, free to attend: Winter ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival 22.-28.2.2016 ANTI’s livingroom (pop-up-space project) […]

Media release 18.12.2016 The 16th edition of ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival will take place between 18th and 24th September 2017 in Kuopio, Finland. We are now looking for 1-2 artists, living and working in Finland, to lead a community arts project and create a site-specific artwork to be presented at the festival.   Both […]

The 16th edition of ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival will take place between 18th and 24th September 2017. The festival will partner with a number of local partners to produce a programme of projects that respond to the theme of water. We invite proposals from artists working in any medium,   however please be aware that ANTI is […]

Media release 10.11.2016 The Weekend of October ANTI Prize Weekend took place between 27th and 29th October 2016 in Kuopio, Finland. The programme of the event was presented mostly in public spaces such as in a shopping centre and a park – as well as in a church. Almost 2 000 people took part in the […]

Media release 29.10.2016 The winner of ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art 2016 was announced on Saturday 29th October 2016 at ANTI Prize Weekend. For the first time, the Prize was awarded to a Finnish artist, Terike Haapoja!   The artist was presented with 30,000 euros, making the prize one of Finland’s greatest cultural […]